Excerpt from The Kingdom of Gold: Dedicated to "Whomsoever," November 1888, Rejected by the Builders of Books for a Quarter of a Century Upon a wave-polished boulder in a recess of the rocks on the eastern shore of Mystic Island, sat a lad clothed in the meagre garb of a tropical clime. With his bare feet resting on the pliant sand he formed little depressions into which the spent wave lets of the ocean found momentary rest, and then in a twinkling were displaced by a new-comer, that in turn leveled itself and became for an instant a miniature sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.